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However, Australia has grown closer to the United States in response to China’s expanding military can.
But there remains one continuous- China is also, by way, Australia and New Zealand’s largest trade market.
Geopolitical scientist Geoffrey Miller told AFP that Li’s attend carried a never- so- simple message:” Do n’t put it all at risk”.
New Zealand has been considering whether to participate in the AUKUS security alliance between Washington, London, and Canberra, which is thought to be crucial for halting China’s military development.
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has also criticised China’s efforts to expand its safety presence in the Pacific Islands.
Miller, from Wellington’s Victoria University, said Li would slip business” carrots” in an attempt to lighten this approach.
Beijing is likely to give incentives to present New Zealand “what it was lose” if it agrees to work with AUKUS to develop defense systems, he said.
China is aware that there has n’t been a final decision, she said. Therefore, there is a possibility to convey the significance of that choice to New Zealand.
One of the first developed countries to sign a free trade agreement with Beijing was New Zealand, and now almost a third of its imports are made there.
Foreign buyers have a ravenous appetite, in particular, for New Zealand’s advanced foods, dairy and wines.
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Li will travel out of New Zealand’s business hub Auckland on Saturday night, bound for the southwestern Australian capital of Adelaide.
Adelaide is the home village of Foreign Minister Penny Wong, who is credited with helping to stabilise ties between Canberra and Beijing, and is situated close to the famous Barossa winemaking region.
At the top of a fractious and years-long trade dispute that just just started to fade, Australian wine was one of a slew of supplies effectively barred from China.
While wine, coal, firewood, grain and meat exports have mostly resumed, trade obstacles remain for American rock lobster.
Adelaide Zoo, commonly regarded as a sign that big penguins Wang Wang and Fu Ni, who have been loaned it from China since 2009, may be allowed to stay, will be one of Li’s first starts.